new index page layout

In a desperate effort to procrastinate doing anything productive, I fiddled with the layout of my index page today. Like for hours. It now looks simple, and not like it could have taken hours to get there from my previous layout, but I actually tried a lot of stuff (most of which didn't work like I thought it should), and once again I found out more about CSS quirks than I wanted to now. It looks okay for me in Mozilla, Opera and Konqueror for Linux, and works in Lynx as well. I hope the layout isn't broken other browsers.

(As a side note, is this a new "feature" that the LJ spell check won't accept contractions anymore? I think it's rather silly that it suggests "USN, INS, ins, sin, ISBN,..." for "isn" just because it doesn't recognize "isn't" or "doesn't" anymore.)